Can you expand on this wild claim? The whole point of containers is isolation so what you are saying is that containers fail at that all the time?
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Lemongrab@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Idk how to decide what is safe or not, but as a warning, Docker containers can escape trivially and have access to the kernel.
verstra@programming.dev 1 month ago
asap@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They might be talking about posts like this (which I would love to have refuted, as this kind of info has so far kept me from using Docker significantly):
ancoraunamoka@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
There is nothing to refute, 100% correct
Lemongrab@lemmy.one 1 month ago
Docker/Podman and LXC linux containers share the same kernel with the host machine. Root in the container is root period. With a exploit to escape the container (which are common) the malicious program has root on the machine. This is a known attack vector against linux containers. VMs are much better for isolating untrusted software from the host OS.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 month ago
This is not true. Perhaps on an already at-risk or exploitable machine, but even then it’s not trivial, and this is not a widespread thing that happens everywhere all the time
kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
It is. Privilege escalation vulnerabilities are common. There is basically a 100% chance of unpatched container escapes in the Linux kernel. Some of these are very likely privately known and available for sale. So even if you are fully patched a resourceful attacker will escape the container.
That being said if you are a low-value regular-joe patching regularly, the risk is relatively low.